The Two-Phase Machine: Your LLM Request Is Two Jobs in a Trench Coat
Every API call you make to an LLM is secretly two jobs glued together. The first reads your entire prompt in one giant matrix multiply — compute-bound, GPUs at full throttle. The second dribbles out tokens one at a time, each step re-reading the entire conversation history from memory — memory-band…
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- 2026-10-05 21:52 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
The Two-Phase Machine: Your LLM Request Is Two Jobs in a Trench Coat